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2011

➤ “I always wanted to be a model”original ↗
17 Aug 2011
2011 ➤ On video: US debut for Tony Hadley’s own new songoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2011
➤ Gaga alert: PJ baffled by fishy Young Fronkensteen video, but predicts a step-changeoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2011
2011 ➤ Mother of all disco divas Grace fans her hurricane to new depths of wickednessoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2011
2011 ➤ Hadley’s US debut wows New York and fills the room with loveoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2011
➤ “It will happen again” says London teenager who predicted riotsoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2011
➤ As Big Tone Hadley goes West he tosses out a few interview squibsoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2011
➤ After the looting, the London clean-up has started in Hackney and Claphamoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2011
2011 ➤ Images of London in the hands of the moboriginal ↗
8 Aug 2011
➤ Steve Strange puts on an Essex face for Ascotoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2011
➤ Inbetweeners, bring your wellies — Christos hits the cutting-room floor and he’s guttedoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2011
➤ 30 years ago today: “The Day the Middle Class Died”original ↗
5 Aug 2011
2011 ➤ Soho House purges suit-and-tie man while the Groucho laughs all the way to the baroriginal ↗
27 Jul 2011
➤ Does chart-topper Adele really need to be on the Mercury shortlist?original ↗
19 Jul 2011
1981–2011 ➤ Atlantis heads home — now space travel is down to Jeff Bezos and the marketplaceoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2011
2011 ➤ Telling the Truth: a TV doc with a message for the times we live inoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2011
2011 ➤ Open your wallet for a Vintage sting on London’s Southbankoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2011
➤ Nick Davies declared “the greatest living British journalist” as Carl Bernstein declares “Murdoch’s Watergate?”original ↗
9 Jul 2011
➤ Oh, Steve you old villain, what big fangs you’ve grown!original ↗
4 Jul 2011
1981 ➤ Chant No 1: Spandau revive the rumble of funk while hard times loomoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2011
1981 ➤ “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals” — the world is alerted to the Aids epidemicoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2011
➤ Get up! James Brown is now the The Godfather of Souporiginal ↗
1 Jul 2011
➤ The incomparable Hilary Alexander makes her own front-page news by throwing in the troweloriginal ↗
1 Jul 2011
➤ INDEX of posts for June 2011original ↗
30 Jun 2011
➤ Jarvis takes his lyrics to Eliot’s publisher Faberoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2011
➤ Too cool to crow — Paradise Point just happen to be gigging in Hyde Park before Grace and Pulporiginal ↗
29 Jun 2011
➤ Lest we forget: man has changed his ways since Peter Wyngarde cracked the sickest joke on vinyloriginal ↗
29 Jun 2011
➤ Irrational, Professor Cox! Discussing science in a tent at Glastonbury?original ↗
27 Jun 2011
➤ Martin Kemp’s Stalker set for autumn releaseoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2011
➤ Will the magical blasts from the past follow St Martin’s out of Soho?original ↗
25 Jun 2011
2011 ➤ Heaven 17 remind us how electronic music can send the soul soaring!original ↗
23 Jun 2011
➤ The Blitz Kids WATN? No 28, Stephen Linardoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2011
1981 ➤ Hot days, cool nights, as Blue Rondo join the new Brits changing the pop chartsoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2011
2011 ➤ When Shirl asked Peps if she fancied an arena tour, Peps said to Shirl, Why not?original ↗
19 Jun 2011
2011 ➤ EPIC forecasts for the 2015 media landscape loom closer than we thinkoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2011
➤ Aside from the freaks, George, who else came to your 50th birthday party?original ↗
16 Jun 2011
➤ One million people think Charlie really is SoCoolLikeoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2011
1904 ➤ The day Nora made a man of Joyceoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2011
2011 ➤ Boy George hits the big Five-0 and he now says, yes, he has ‘lots of regrets’original ↗
10 Jun 2011
2001 ➤ Hear about the many lives of Midge Ure, the Mr Nice of poporiginal ↗
9 Jun 2011
➤ Wise-cracking Sallon shimmies back onto London’s party sceneoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2011
➤ Mix your own version of Bowie’s Golden Yearsoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2011
2010 ➤ Lady Gaga ousts Lily Allen as UK’s most played artistoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2011
➤ Martin Rushent — the man who made stars of the Human League — is deadoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2011
2011 ➤ What happens when retromania exhausts our pop pastoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2011
➤ Up close and cool — Paradise Point’s first official videooriginal ↗
1 Jun 2011
➤ FHM says “Pass the sick bucket” after readers vote Andrej Pejic one of the “Sexiest Women”original ↗
31 May 2011
➤ Taste Masters from oop North aim to put passion back into poporiginal ↗
30 May 2011
➤ Knock-knock, fashion gems on a shoestringoriginal ↗
26 May 2011
➤ Brett on the love that created “a Suede landscape” in the tribal 80soriginal ↗
19 May 2011
2011 ➤ Duran’s round-the-world adventure reaches the UKoriginal ↗
17 May 2011
2011 ➤ Barefoot Sade lets her hair down for Europeoriginal ↗
16 May 2011
2011 ➤ The ghosts of Fac and Hac walk tall againoriginal ↗
16 May 2011
2011 ➤ The on-off brotherly rivalry that drove John and Scott Walker apartoriginal ↗
9 May 2011
1982 ➤ Spot the faces at Phil and Rob’s bleeding-edge Dirtboxoriginal ↗
7 May 2011
1981 ➤ Ballet on Broadway, leading the British invasion of America, spring 1981original ↗
6 May 2011
2011 ➤ Soprano Jenkins tops pop’s young Rich Listoriginal ↗
5 May 2011
➤ Bin Laden raid becomes Twitter’s CNN momentoriginal ↗
2 May 2011
➤ When digital downloads mean lost income for stars like Eminemoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2011
2011 ➤ Rutter’s anthem affirms romance of the royal weddingoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2011
➤ Dear oh dear! Thoughtless Cameron PM swats women’s 200-year struggle from the history booksoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2011
➤ “Warrior of the night” Frankland bounces back with London Fashion Week in her sightsoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2011
➤ Morrissey detonates bidding war for his memoirsoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2011
➤ OMG and LOL — it’s the slang gang sheening their way into the English dictionaryoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2011
➤ Judith Frankland experiments with power and femininityoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2011
➤ Did London’s £15m security cameras really fail to record attack on Boy George’s best friend?original ↗
7 Apr 2011
➤ A swelle hello from upstart Judith, returning in an explosion of colouroriginal ↗
7 Apr 2011
➤ Index of posts for Marchoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2011
➤ Adam Ant reveals his terrifying years in purgatoryoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2011
➤ Martin Kemp’s live tutorial via bass camoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2011
2011 ➤ Clarke and Wilder pile in for Depeche Mode’s ultimate remix albumoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2011
➤ Mick Karn takes a last journey in Dalis Car 2original ↗
28 Mar 2011
➤ Anna’s Army — how the English-born editor of Vogue became her own global brandoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2011
➤ Crazee or crazed? Lynch’s view of Duran from within his hellish caveoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2011
1932–2011 ➤ Liz Taylor — glamour to a Toriginal ↗
23 Mar 2011
➤ 22 territories tune in for tonight’s Duran Duran concert live on the weboriginal ↗
23 Mar 2011
2011 ➤ Despite sniffy critics, ultimately Duran’s best album since their glory yearsoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2011
➤ Smartphones become UK shoppers’ essentialsoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2011
2011 ➤ Spandau and Duran square up for battle just like the old daysoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2011
➤ Gary Kemp puts his neck on the block — Spandau ‘the best live British band of the Eighties’original ↗
13 Mar 2011
➤ Haunting video catches grim carnage of the Japanese tsunamioriginal ↗
11 Mar 2011
Revolver Maps – Click on the map to see who visits Shapers of the 80soriginal ↗
11 Mar 2011
1981 ➤ The day Duran’s fortunes really took flightoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2011
➤ The Kid’s in pink so he’s ready for the funkoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2011
➤ Index of posts for Februaryoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2011
1981 ➤ New Romantics have their day — rearranging the deck-chairs at the posers’ balloriginal ↗
14 Feb 2011
1944 ➤ “Go to work, Slim” — Lauren Bacall offers a musical treat for Valentine’s Dayoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2011
➤ Guardian makes Shapersofthe80s an internet pick of the weekoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2011
1961 ➤ No wonder The Beatles changed the shape of music after 456 sessions practising in publicoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2011
➤ The Kemp Brothers cook up a mystical morseloriginal ↗
8 Feb 2011
➤ EMI chief confirms record company sale highly likelyoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2011
➤ Rivals sniffy about Murdoch’s Daily — more an iPad magazine than a newspaperoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2011
1981 ➤ Birth of Duran’s Planet Earth — when other people’s faith put the Brummies into the chartsoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2011
➤ Index of posts for Januaryoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2011
➤ George Michael celebrates his golden years of Faithoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2011
2011 ➤ Reliving the Blitz: two pocket fanzines and a request from Rusty Eganoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2011
➤ “Too posh for pop” — Grandpa Waterman condemns two decades of musicmakersoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2011
➤ Index of posts for December 2010original ↗
25 Jan 2011
1981 ➤ Why naked heroes from antiquity stood in for Spandau on their first record sleevesoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2011
➤ Ferry backed by three bass players, Roxy back on the road — how cool is that?original ↗
23 Jan 2011
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